Jon writes:
So pound for pound what're the most effective life-saving measures we have at our disposal?
Globally, due to excess supplies, humans aren't worth much, pound for pound; say, compared to a beef tenderloin. Perhaps there are no cost-effective measures.
Keep in mind proposals should include not only a measure of the benefits (lives saved) but also the costs, monetary our otherwise.
If you will persist in saving worthless lives, so those unfortunates can continue to roll from one misery to another, then you could save millions annually cheap: vaccines and toilets. The bumper crop effects of disease prevention and effective sanitation are well established in animal husbandry: pound for pound, you can't do better on the feed lot.
If you have a particularly soft spot for children, access to IV fluids and other diarrhea treatments would produce a bumper crop for the next genocidal opportunist. If there's anything left in your charitable pocket, feed my sheep.
Nationally, why bother? Way too many people...introduce more wolves instead; grizzlies, too. More and bigger gators could improve the Florida experience for the young. Most Americans have no use for at least half of all other Americans, anyway. One might want to stop suicide prevention and other outreach programs: if there are too many of us to assure a decent life for all, then why string the weak along?
Maybe I'm being too cynical. How many lives did you want to save? We need scale to calculate cost.
What's my motivation here?
"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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